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Nov 07, 2020

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

Nov 07, 2020

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

Make
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Nov 07, 2020

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

Fear
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Nov 07, 2020

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

Being Responsible
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Nov 07, 2020

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

Idiocy
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Nov 07, 2020

Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

Nov 07, 2020

I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.

Contemporary Life
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Nov 07, 2020

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

Nov 07, 2020

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

Nov 07, 2020

To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.

Play
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Nov 07, 2020

I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.

Sometimes
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Nov 07, 2020

You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.

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